- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Rodríguez, Reina María (1952-)
- Title:
- Reina María Rodríguez Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6t053g007
- Dates:
- 1940-2022 (mostly 1979-2022)
- Size:
- 18.0 linear feet and (28 containers)
- Storage Note:
- This is stored in multiple locations. Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-23 ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 24-28
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
This collection consists of correspondence, writings (poetry and prose), notebooks, photographs, and printed materials.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
This collection contains assorted poetry and prose manuscripts, notebooks, diary-like letters to Héctor Falcón, letters sent to and received from various correspondents, and photographs (including photos of Reina María Rodríguez). Additional materials include notebooks with texts and notes, writings, correspondence, photographs, clippings and other printed materials.
- Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following series and subseries. Later accessions are described under Series 5, Additional Materials:
- Collection Creator Biography:
Rodríguez, Reina María
The poet Reina María Rodríguez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1952. She studied literature and graduated from the Universidad de La Habana. For fifteen years, Rodríguez directed and wrote radio and television programs. Rodríguez is the author of several poetry collections: La gente de mi barrio (1976), Cuando una mujer no duerme (La Habana, Cuba: Uníon de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, 1980), Para un cordero blanco (La Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, 1984), En la arena de Padua (La Habana, Cuba: Ediciones Unión, 1992), Para los pájaros (1995), Páramos (La Habana, Cuba: Ediciones Unión, 1995), La foto del invernadero (La Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, 1998), Te daré de comer como a los pájaros (La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas, 2000), Una muchacha loca como los pájaros (México: Ediciones Coyoacán, 2003), Catch and Release (La Habana, Cuba : Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2006) and Bosque negro (Cáceres : Institución Cultural El Brocense, 2008). She is currently the co-director of the literary magazine Azoteas. Throughout her career as a poet Rodríguez has been awarded a variety of literary prizes, including Concurso "13 de Marzo" (1976), Premio de Poesía Julián de Casal (1980 and 1993), Premio Casa de las Américas (1984 and 1998), Premio de la Crítica (Cuba) (1992, 1995, and 1999), Premio de la Revista Plural (Mexico) (1992), and Order of Arts and Letters of France (1999).
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Multiple purchases from Reina María Rodríguez.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Alyssa Meyers and Jill Baron in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Finding aid written by Karla Vecchia in 2006, Alyssa Meyers in 2011, and Jill Baron in 2012. Additional materials processed by Armando Suárez in 2023.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Reina María Rodríguez Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6t053g007
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- This is stored in multiple locations. Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-23 ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 24-28